They won’t need to pack the court. Alito and Thomas will retire in about 18 months, just after having upheld a national abortion ban. They’ll view it as their crowning achievement and walk into the sunset as GOP heroes. Then they’ll be replaced with like-minded ideologues in their mid-40s to ensure that the right wing of the court will remain intact for at least the next 20 years.
If they packed the court, they will have just opened the door for Dems to do the same. Instead, they’ll leave it at 9 and dare the Dems to do something about it.
It’s not about the House or the EC, it’s the Senate. 2 more reliably R senators makes things worse